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RAPP Campaign - ELDERS IN PRISON: Bringing Them Home & Rebuilding Our Communities (opening session)

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Topics: mass incarceration, prison, jail, shu, racism, prison industrial complex, police brutality, incarceration, prison abolition, abolitionist, justice, solitary confinement, transformative justice

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Release Aging People in Prison / RAPP presents a Queens Community Forum: ELDERS IN PRISON: Bringing Them Home & Rebuilding Our Communities

July 9, 2016

Queens Educational Opportunity Center (QEOC)

Come learn about the unjust barriers Senior Citizens face getting out of prison and how to re-build strong & healthy communities by supporting their release, re-integration, & re-entry into our neighborhoods.

The Community Forum will include Speakers, Workshops, Music, Informational Tables, Community Organizations & Social Service Providers, and Engaging Dialogue and Discussion!

Featuring: Ms. Rose LaBorde, Jamaica Queens matriarch & mother of the late Political Prisoner Abdullah Majid; Sekou Odinga, recently released elder & former U.S. Political Prisoner; Mujahid Farid, formerly incarcerated elder & co-founder of RAPP; dequi kioni-sadiki, Malcolm X Commemoration Committee; Al Tony Simon, formerly incarcerated elder & organizer for RAPP; Yasmeen Sutton, NYC-based Black Panther Party Commemoration Committee; Kelly Sloan, NYC singer/songwriter

In Partnership with Queens Community Board 12: Senior Citizen & Health Committee, Youth Committee and The Southeast Queens Muslim Collective.

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